Wednesday, July 08, 2009

These are the marketing tips for freelancers that I posted to Twitter throughout May and June 2009. Please keep in mind that each one, including labels and hashtags (keywords) that don't appear here, had to be 140 characters and spaces or fewer to fit Twitter's limits on the length of individual tweets. I have not rewritten them here; they appear in the same telegraphic speech that I used on Twitter to meet those limits. When I wrote them, I had generalist freelance copyeditors in mind, but I believe that most of them will work for freelancers of any kind. Use them and prosper:

Network. Join & participate in professional associations and e-mail lists.

7 comments:

Things sure are parched around here this summer. I'll have to try some of these.

I'd add attending conferences (to the extent you can afford it); joining organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce or the Better Business Bureau where you may meet people who can use your services; give presentations in front of various groups; join trade groups such as CSE and STC that do active outreach to employers; seek state, county, and federal contracts.

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